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Before the sacrifice, the sacrificial victim was led three times around a grain field where a chorus of farmers and farm-servants danced and sang praises for Ceres and offered her libations of milk, honey and wine.
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Before and sacrifice
Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.
Before setting out for Troy, this type of animal sacrifice is offered.
Before he can do so, he is stopped by the Silvites, who sacrifice their lives to take down the protective shield around Soltis.
Before the festival, Alvarado encountered a group of women building a statue of Huitzilopochtli and the image unsettled him, and he became suspicious about the eventuality of human sacrifice.
Before and sacrificial
Before the competition begins, the host will often bring up a " sacrificial poet ", whom the judges will score in order to calibrate their judging.
Before long, Vala ends up chained to a sacrificial altar, about to be burned to death by the village's Administrator and his fanatical followers.
Before and victim
Before he dies from a gunshot wound, he tells his ex-wife Siobhan Ryan, the intended victim, about " losing my timing so late in my career ".
Before carrying out his scheme, Montresor reveals his family's coat-of-arms to the intended victim: " A huge human foot d ' or, in a field azure ; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
Before long he had become convinced that Jean Calas had been the victim of judicial murder and he set about to rehabilitate his memory.
Before he can meet him, he is called to investigate a suicide and learns that the victim is Hunsaker's daughter, Amanda.
Before the forces of Batu and Guyuk met though, Guyuk, sick and worn out by travel, died en route at Qum-Senggir in Eastern Turkestan, possibly a victim of poison.
* In Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which is also set among the landed gentry ( and which was filmed in 1941 by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion ), a wealthy young woman becomes the wife, and eventually the victim, of a ruthless criminal.
* Before Ridgway's confession, authorities had not attributed to the Green River Killer the deaths of victims Rule, Barczak, Hayes, Reeves, Yellowrobe and ' victim 49 '.
Before leaving, he was the victim of an assassination attempt — Moţa, just returned from prison, was given another short sentence after he led the reprisals.
" Before voluntarily leaving EWTN, Groeschel released a statement saying that he did not intend to " blame the victim ", affirming that sexual abuse by priests is " always always wrong " and stating that, " I deeply regret any harm I have caused to anyone.
Before striking it on the big screen, Leon amassed numerous small screen credits, notably in a 1989 episode of the NBC series Midnight Caller, in which he played an athlete who falls victim to crack cocaine.
Before they can marry, however, Robert falls victim to Murad's revenge and is shipped to North Africa.
Before Pasarian can inform Richard the next day, his is the victim of a fatal accident at work.
Before he can fully investigate this claim, Lawrence unexpectedly falls dead, and those around him fear he was the victim of a curse placed on the tomb.
Before and was
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.
Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.
Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.
Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.
Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.
Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.
Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.
Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.
Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.
Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.
Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.
Before and led
This important fact led many C programmers to humorously issue the backronym Before C Programming Language.
Before the arrival of Europeans, Banda had an oligarchic form of government led by orang kaya (' rich men ') and the Bandanese had an active and independent role in trade throughout the archipelago.
Before rail fins became ( extremely ) popular, this tendency of " single fins " led to riders " nursing " turns-this tendency was a significant limiting factor on performance.
Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.
Before drafting the specific terms of his peace deal, Wilson recruited a team led by Colonel House to compile information deemed pertinent in assessing Europe ’ s geo-political situation.
Before the Second World War, researchers in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, independently and in great secrecy, developed technologies that led to the modern version of radar.
Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.
Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and by them was led away to eternal punishment.
Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.
The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.
Before the end of the millennium the forces of Gondor, led by Aragorn under alias, attacked Umbar and destroyed the Corsair fleet, allowing Denethor II to devote all of his attention to the threat posed by Mordor.
Before the election of 2004, Karzai led the country after being chosen by delegates of the Bonn Conference in December 2001 to head an interim government after the removal of the Taliban Emirate.
Before 2005, the divisions were East and West, but the move of the Greenville Braves to Mississippi after the 2004 season led to a realignment.
Before that, in 780 and again in 782, he had already nominally led campaigns against the Caliphate's traditional enemy, the Byzantine Empire.
Before dawn on March 16, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led several hundred of his rebel soldiers across the Mexican border into the southern county village of Columbus.
Before the 12th century, when drainage and embankment efforts led by monks began to separate the land from the estuarine mudflats, the Wash was the tidal part of The Fens that extended as far as Cambridge and Peterborough.
Before Spanish troops could arrive to help defend the missions, the fathers themselves led a Guaraní army against the enemy.
Before the harbor mouth was dredged and cleared in the late 19th century, the mouth of this inlet would often go dry at low tide, which led to its being called a lake.
Before the battle, Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne united his Franco-German army with an all-French army led by Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( then known as the Duc d ' Enghien, courtesy title of the heir to the Condé honours, to which he would not succeed until the following year ).
This led to a new studio album, Before Became After ( 2004 ), with most of the Kansas II members participating.
Before the 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists ; but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group.
Before 1966, the issue of sharing river waters and development of projects had led to disputes between India and Pakistan as well as between the Indian states.
Before bowling became a varsity sport, it was a club sport coached by Bill Straub who led the club team to two national IBC titles in 1991 and 1995.
Before Fingers ' time, a former starter's renewed success in the bullpen would have led back to a spot in the starting rotation ; but since the successes of not only Fingers but also contemporaries such as Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage, it has been widely accepted that an excellent pitcher might actually provide a greater benefit to his team as a closer than as a third or fourth starter.
Before it was announced, or indeed before she was even informed of the plan, a mix-up led to the collapse of the arrangement.
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